I came across this site recently – it’s an idea that I’ve seen previously, noteably NB Studio’s You Are Here campaign for the museum of London l  - but this opens this very simple but brilliant idea up for everyone to relate to and add their own content. I find a lot of the pictures very emotive, linking memory, people and place in a powerful way. It’s hard to look at all these without feeling the strong desire to go out and do one yourself  – time to route through my old photo albums…

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Dear Photograph, memory, place

I was invited to spend some time in Derby this weekend to see the final days of the Format Festival – a collection of work from various artists, displayed at different venues across Derby’s centre.

The festival focused on ‘Street Photography’, ranging from shots taken through the window of a military vehicle in Afghanistan to beautifully lit, emotional portraits captured in day-to-day city life. Some awesome and inspiring photography on display, with Dougie Wallace, Trent Parke and Vivian Maier being among my favourites.

Check out the website and list of exhibitions at http://www.formatfestival.com

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| Artists Wanted | In Focus : Pete Eckert (Lo-Speed) from Artists Wanted on Vimeo.

Pete Eckert is a totally blind person. But through his photography, he proves that he IS a visual person, he just can’t see. This is a beautiful and challenging piece of filmmaking, spare a couple of minutes to check it out. I’d love to know what you think about the role our vision plays in ’seeing’ – something we all surely take for granted almost all the time.

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Another 5D film that just shows why this affordable kit is the way forward for video. Love the simple, three layered, emotional style of it.

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Richard Mosse has a fantastic body of work, including this great project from the Congo.

Infra red, Photography, Richard Mosse

Taken using Kodachrome film by the improbably and wonderfully named Chalmers Butterfield, probably in 1949. Click here for the high res imagery. Beautiful.

1940's, Kodachrome, London

Jean Malek’s website shows that great visual impact doesn’t have to be at the expense of simple usability. In fact I think the useability vs design debate is really a bit old hat now, they should just go hand in hand. (Designers and developers unite, it’s a love in!) Anyway, we really like the way they collide on this site. It’s a striking way for him to display his work and the way the menu icon follows your cursor round the screen means you never get lost.

There is also the thoughtful inclusion of quick links to get directly to the previous/next piece of work. Very nice…

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The Stranger Project by Benoit Paillé, a 24 year-old photographer, is incredible. There is a richness and intensity in this project that I find compelling, a great body of work I could return to again and again. View the full set here on flickr.

“To question the modern world and to try to break the individualism and the anonymity of the big city”

Portraits

Damon Winter, a staff photographer for the New York Times, has been working on a photo column called The Lens Project which allows the photographers to make their own commentary through images. He created a series called Neighbors which utilizes double exposures created with a large format camera to make interesting juxtapositions of images. Click through for more…

Double exposure

How about ‘gigapixels’? All seventeen of them!

This image of Glacier Point is, apparently, the largest known stitched image. Made from 2046 images, it weighs in at a whopping 96.5GB, and covers 59ft x 22ft when printed at 300dpi.

Check out the images and be sure to use the ‘zoomify’ mode to view them. It’s just amazing how much detail has been captured. I could spend all day looking at them!

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